Method of the study Participants. The assessment process will include some twenty-five Israeli families who have lost a son or daughter below the age of 18 as a result of a terrorist incident, at least six months previously. All family members living at home will participate in the study. The study will not include single-parent families, or family members who suffer from mental retardation, disturbances because of addiction, or psychiatric disturbance from the psychotic or autistic spectra (schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness, psychotic disturbances, PDD).